The Lambertville record., 1887-07-13

mace, and the hot afr is carried through
many small pipes to little engine-room,
where it is subdivided into sufficient
quantities for each ROOM and, in some
lndehnable manner, as soon as the room
reaches certain temperature little
machine stops the hot air itself and let's
the cool air have chance, and thus the
temperature is kept equable all the time
by this system you can have the climate
OF Florida with its salt sea breeze all the
year round or you can have the noun
tain air, spicy with halmy resinous
odors. The income of the pure air is so
strong that if you hold handkerchief
by the corners to any of the ventilators
1t will be blown out straight or it will be
drawn closely to the grating by the
counter current of impure air
The bathrooms and sinks are all oper-
ated upon new principle invented by
Mr.. Dickerson, and they preclude the
possibility of impure air or sewer gas.
As far as odor is concerned, you might
stand blindfold in any bathroom and
imagine yourself in the parlor.
All over the house is that immaculate
cleanliness, and in no place nor corner
is there an odor in the slightest degree;
not even in the kitchen, which is model
of convenience on scientific principles
They might cook cabbage, onions, garlic
or even sour crout, and every breath of
odor goes up the funnel which hangs like
gigantic umbrella over the range and
seizes every smell before 1t has a chance
to disperso itself through the house, and
no hospitable odor of cooking dinner
meets one there
There is a hydraulic dumb waiter
which carries the food from the cellar to
the second story, where the dining-r room
Is. There is large and very pleasant
servants parlor, and laundry with the
most perfect possible earrangements-por
celain-lined tubs, with stop-cocks to
carry the water away, and the hot and
cold all arranged so that no dampness
can remain and no stopping occur.
There is a steam mangle and hot-air
room to dry the clothes in. The frames
for drying the clothes ON slide in and
out, and the heaviest counterpane dries
in ten minutes. This hot air after use in
the drying-room is all caught and carried
to the roof and dispersed A funnel also
carries of the steam which arises from
the tubs. Each room having its own
complete set of ventilators, does not COM
municate with any other.
All of the electric generating appar-
atus, the steam engine hot-air furnace,
air tilterings and coolings and hydraulic
works are in the front cellar, while the
kitchen, landing and servants parlor
are in the back part of 1t. There are also
bins for different kinds of vegetables,
for wine and fruit, each having its own
compartment and kept at the tempera-
ture considered best adapted, and all
the cellar is of concrete and as clean as
a parlor. There is an immense ice box,
which is room in reality, in which
three persons could easily stand, and
around this are shelves for different
articles.
There is also an automatic elevator
which Is the most perfect thing of its
kind ever seen-absolutely safe and very
comfortable. When you get In a spring
closes the door and 1t cannot be opened
by any possible means until you reach
floor. Then 1t opens automatically until
you are out, when 1t closes tightly behind
you of its own volition. In short, 1t
can't fall, you can't pinch your head of,
nor hurt yourself by accident or design,
and 1t is SO simple that child could
manage it. This, too, is Mr.. Dickerson's
invention, and works by hydraulic
power. These are but few of the
arrangements for comfort, health and
convenience based upon strictly scientific
principles in this elegant and model
home, but they are all that my unscientific
brain could take in. OLIVE HARPER.